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Thursday, December 11, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I was heading into a grocery store with some female family members, and the Salvation Army guy who was ringing the bell out front said, "Hey, Ladies, you wanna ring my bell?" in a very suggestive manner.

My mouth dropped open.

My boys love the cute, lighted, wire sculpture reindeer at our neighborhood entrances. One morning, at the crack of dawn, I saw those cute little reindeer posed in a compromising position.

I burst out laughing.

Everywhere I go, every store, has holiday music playing. And before I even realize what I'm hearing...I find myself singing along, in my head. And it's darn addictive. AND, I notice other people singing OUTLOUD. And wiggling or dancing. It's infectious.

I can't help but smile.

And the craziest part of all? I imagine myself baking all kinds of holiday goodies to wrap and give to people. I have visions so strongly that I can smell the cookies, taste the chocolate turtles in my mouth...and then I realize I'll be lucky if I can make one batch of holiday cookies, much less bake enough that look good and are edible to give to people!!

My mouth waters.

What holiday craziness have you seen out and about? Good or bad.

I've seen cars decorated with Rudolph noses and antlers.I've seen blow-up Santas on motorcycles.

Do you have decorations in your yard or on your house?I haven't put up our lights yet. We're fairly low key on decorations but we like to do something.

I see some houses with no decorations at all, and I wonder why.I see some houses with decorations out the wazoo, all chaotic and crazy, and I wonder why.

35 comments:

My favorite holiday madness was in a cartoon in Readers Digest.It had those lovely lite up reindeers. Looks sweet yes! But off to the side was a lite up STALKING wolf. I howled with laughter. Yeah I want that set up in my yard.

I'm one of those people that would decorate out the wazoo ... like National Lampoons Christmas .. but I'm terrified of heights, so I can't climb around to hang my lights outside lol .. At the moment I just have lights on the porch, the christmas tree in the house, and the light up snowmen carolers out in the yard. Hopefully I'll be able to talk a friend into hanging the outside lights for me this year.. then, yep, I'll be one of those people that never takes them down :p

I'm almost always the first one in the neighborhood to put lights up outside, but we have NOTHING right now. It's in direct correlation to the amount of stuff I need to do before leaving for California. I think we're just going to put up the inflatable decor and leave it at that.

since this year we are trying to settle into the new house and get things worked out with that... it is a little crazy here anyway... but add THREE very excited and into SANTA and CHRISTMAS kids ages 5 & 3 and you have all the holiday madness you can dream up. :) lol

we put up some snowflakes and silver and blue ornament/balls from the ceiling in the living room, garland and lights on the mantle and garland on the tv stand with two ceramic cookie jars, one is a tree one is Santa and some multi-colored icecicle lights around the living room that my parents bought for us... and we have some other holiday decorations here and there around the house... something on each of the kids door for their rooms and on the bathroom door, in the kitchen and that is pretty much it... but I have more to put up.. I'm just waiting to get my bedroom painted and move some things around before I decorate the playroom. :) we also like to do an Elf style decorating where we make paper chains and cut out snowflakes all in white paper and hang them up... HUGE hit and cheap!! the kids LOVE to help do it too!! :)

I haven't seen anything crazy but then I really haven't been looking for crazy either. Our house is one of those w/out decorations. We are Jewish and most of the holiday decorations available are for Christmas. We have decorations for the inside like dreidel streamers and a few Chanukiyot for the window, entertainment center & where ever else the family puts them. There are other things we put out also but at the moment my house looks as average as always. I hate digging all of those decorations out with the knowledge that I am going to be the one to clean it all up when it's over. Oy vey humbug! (I guess.) :)

Okay, I would have BUSTED UP if I'd have seen the reindeer. I kinda want to go through my neighborhood and do that to some of the reindeer I see. If you lived closer, we could enjoy some adult beverages and then you could help me defile the reindeer. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't take Lula a whole lot of convincing to help us.

We have nothing Christmas-y up yet. Not even the girls advent calendars. I've only gotten one Christmas card in the mail. I am waiting for the excitement to hit me. But it hasn't happened yet. I think you totally need a picture of those reindeer. Even if you have to stage it again...